movie review

Movie reviews for horror fans; from gruesome bone-chillers to dark horror thrillers, a showcase for frightful films that seek to entertain and to terrify.

Trashed
Pink Flamingos is a film so wretchedly awful, so absent of any redeeming social value, it's hard to believe that it could be repackaged and sold in any conventional sense as "entertainment." Its storyline is epic in scope: it's a classic Shakespearean revenge tragedy, an operatic saga singing its arias from a sewer.
By Tom Baker5 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Anything For Jackson' (2020)
Shudder is starting to up their game with their exclusive content. This is good, because so far I've been pretty unimpressed. Out of the several selections I've already viewed, most of them were boring or outright bad. But I can honestly say that Anything For Jackson (2020) is damn good. Good enough, where I'm sure it will find a spot somewhere on my top 50. Not high, but on there, and that's an impressive feat.
By Reed Alexander5 years ago in Horror
The "Perfect order to watch Halloween Movies"
This is how I would put all the Halloween Movies in this order and I think this the Perfect order to watch Halloween Movies.
By Praveen Sharma 5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Things Heard & Seen'
I have a reputation, via the Everyone’s A Critic Movie Review Podcast, for being hard on haunted house movies. Indeed, I’ve trashed most of them. Whether it’s The Conjuring franchise and its associated films or just the random September/October studio detritus, made to capitalize on the ravenous horror fandom, I’ve not been impressed with Hollywood’s ghost stories. It’s not a particular bias ghosts ghosts. Rather, it’s an issue with overused tropes, vague motivations, and screenwriting shortcuts that have put me off of Hollywood’s over-familiar ghost formula.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Night Train to Terror
There are some films so unremittingly, odiously awful, that they actually have their own special charm. I'm not sure Night Train to Terror (1985) is quite in the same league, say, as Plan Nine from Outer Space, at least, insomuch as the latter is a far more popular and well-known cult movie. However, as far as pure cinematic dreck is concerned, Night Train actually outdoes Plan Nine by a considerable margin. Matter of fact, since Night Train was actually edited down from a trio of other films, and then given a ludicrous wraparound segment featuring God and Satan on a train full of 1980s music video jazzercize rejects, one could really argue whether or not the impromptu "anthology flick" qualifies as an actual "movie" at all; at least, in the traditional sense.
By Tom Baker5 years ago in Horror
House at the End of the Street - A Movie Review
Stay away from the house at the end of the street. Dark stories plague its history. Released to theaters in 2012, House at the End of the Street is about a mother and daughter moving into a neighborhood. Intrigued by the house next door, Elissa meets her neighbor, Ryan. Instead of listening to warnings from her neighbors, a dark secret is dug up.
By Marielle Sabbag5 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Stir of Echoes' (1999)
In my review of White Noise (2005), I asked the question, "why watch that when you can watch this instead?" They were very similar in style and even plot, but White Noise was pretty lame. I mean, it was okay, but not really worth the watch. This one is so much better AND it has Kevin Bacon in it.
By Reed Alexander5 years ago in Horror
The Suicide Forest?
The official name of this forest is Aokigahara, which translates as “Land of Blue Trees”, but unofficially it is known as the Japanese suicide forest. AKA The suicide Forset as well. I'm gonna do a little research on the history of this and give you some information and a little background of this place?
By Ms. Thomas5 years ago in Horror
Anna and the Apocalypse is an Underrated Gem
(A Review From a Girl Who Just Loves Movies) What happens when you mix Shaun of the Dead with a sweet, candy cane twist? You get Anna and the Apocalypse. This movie somehow threw zombies into High School Musical and created something extraordinary! Not only is it a fun time but this movie has you go in thinking it’s a silly comedy with zombies but then have you leave with a shank to the heart. You don’t even know what hits you until it’s too late and you’re sitting there crying on your couch in shock completely forgetting the movie was a comedy.
By Fai Main5 years ago in Horror
V.C. Andrews' Hidden Jewel (2021) - Film Review
Hidden Jewel finds Ruby searching for a new life for her children, desperate to protect her beloved daughter from their family's dark secrets. Raised amidst the privileged of New Orleans, Pearl (Laporte) aspires to become a doctor, but when one of her twin brothers has a serious unfortunate accident, Pearl's dreams are threatened and Ruby runs once again to the bayou; and when the other brother becomes dangerously ill, Pearl must journey to the backwaters to find her mother and uncover the mysterious secrets of her past.
By Ted Ryan5 years ago in Horror
Jory Marquet: The Moral Compass of VCA
It is easy to say that out of everyone in this messed up family across five books and four films, Jory Marquet is the one will the best head on his shoulders. He is the son of Cathy and Julian. Cathy named him Jory as "J" was for Julian and the "-ory" part was for her brother Cory, but unlike his abusive father or his emotionally unstable mother - Jory has a emotional maturity that many members of his family lack.
By Ted Ryan5 years ago in Horror
VCA Theory: Was Bart Foxworth Queer?
As I have previously tackled Corrine as the Evil Mother and Cathy as the Woman Scorned, one character within the V.C. Andrews notorious family was a bit of a question mark. When I first read Seeds of Yesterday, for several reasons I interpreted Cathy's second one - now the wealthy owner of the newly rebuilt Foxworth, ridiculously handsome, charming and athletic - as being more complex than first believed. Truthfully. when I first read the finale of the Dollanganger saga, I thought Bart Foxworth was bisexual or gay and there are actually elements of this book that lend into this theory of mine:
By Ted Ryan5 years ago in Horror